MC Escher

What is a Tessellation?

• Repeating Pattern

• Can continue infinatly

• No gaps or overlaps

• A structure that is impossible.

MC Escher was a _______artist

• Dutch

• French

• Italian

• American

Tessellations can move across the page in different ways. When the shapes slide it is also know as _________.

• Reflection

• Rotation

• Translation

• Optical Illusion

The Impossible structure created by MC Escher called Belvedere can not actually be built because.

• The steps are not even.

• The columns don't align properly.

• The doors are not properly placed.

• The ladder doesn't reach far enough.

The mathamatical function in this tesselation is called_________.

• Translation

• Reflection

• Glide-Reflection

• Rotation

There are 3 types of regular shapes that tesselate, they are____,____,and_____? (select all that apply)

• Squares

• Triangles

• Circles

• Hexagons

The _______of Alhambra in Spain inspired MC Escher

• decorative tiles

• water feature

• windows

• garden

MC Escher was the son of a __________.

• Engineer

• Artist

• Mathmetician

• Banker